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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

"I'm done, now what?" Baskets

"I'm done! What do I do now???" Ever heard that question?? There are a lot of great ideas floating around out there to help answer it, but here's my solution: I decided to put baskets on each of the tables with activities for the children to do when they are done with their work early or need to fill a few minutes between class activities.

Each basket has a variety of math and literacy items...some of them are the same for each table, some of them are different. For example, there are 6 children at each table, so each basket has 6 sets of sight words for them to practice. I also have 6 "smart pals" in each basket and a set of dry erase markers for them to practice sight word tic-tac-toe, nonsense words, number writing, math skills, etc.

Each basket also has items that I rotate at the end of the week, like beginning/ending sound practice or number activities.

So far, this has worked well. I have not heard, "I'm done, now what???" in a few weeks! The children have gotten into the routine of choosing something to work on until they hear differently. I fill the basket with activities, then rotate them at the end of the week to the next table, so I only need to change the materials every 3 weeks. I am updating the baskets for March tomorrow. Thanks for checking in and have a great day!

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I've been teaching kindergarten for over 20 years! I am married to a wonderful man and am Mom to two super boys. I enjoy doing anything related to stamping and scrapbooking, sewing, reading, biking and spending time with my family. Thanks for visiting my blog to see what's happening in my little corner of the kindergarten world.